I am, are you????? Never mind. I KNOW the answer.
Posted on 08/22/2005 8:50:40 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
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dan elliott
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Daniel Elliott, Sacramento Peace Action Palestine Taskforce, USA
Regulated Resistance: Pt. 2 - The Gatekeepers of the So-Called Left
Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 12:48 PM
BY CHARLES SHAW - Last February United for Peace and Justice, the largest representative coalition within the American "anti-war movement", emerged from their second annual Assembly with a 2005 "action plan" that effectively caged the "anti-war" debate exclusively within the Iraq conflict to achieve partisan ends on behalf of the pro-war Democratic Party and their Neoliberal corporate benefactors. Their "action plan" refused to address any of the core issues of US Foreign and Defense policy, which are the root causes of a pervading culture of war and militarism that has taken over the nation in the years since WWII.
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I've been meaning to post a comment to both this and Part I for several days now, but put it off hoping for a cpl hrs to concentrate on it, since there is so much here.
I've been fwding to everybody I know, as I did with Virginia Rodino's "report back from the Cairo Conference"; to me both are seminal documents clearly indicating the direction "the movement" needs to go.
One aspect that needs to be brought out more clearly is the relationship of UFPJ leaders Cagan and Benjamin to the "liberal zionist" wing of the US Zionist Establishment.
Likewise, the affinity of The Nation to Liberal Zionist circles (and even to the not-so-liberal FLAME organization, whose racist ads the mag was still carrying when I cancelled by sub)should get some attention.
Since it's clear the 911 caper was executed by a large team or network of very skilled, well-connected intelligence agents/agencies, to me it is only common sense to assume that Mossad, plus that org & the IDF's extensive international network of off-the-shelf assets, likely played a major role. (some idea of the capabilities of this network can be gained by reading work by Peter Dale Scott & Jane Hunter).
To me it is impossible to talk about "gatekeepers" and ignore the role of Zionism and Liberal Zionism in US politics, civil society, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, the "respectable" sector of the Civil Rights movement, and the US left/progressive movement(s) in general.
I had been active in "left" activies for a cpl decades: Vietnam war protests, supporting the Bay Area "Black Power" movement, UFWA etc, even protesting the 1982 invasion of Lebanon -- but it wasn't until I started reading the late Rabbi Elmer Berger's AJAZ journal, the work of the late Israel Shahak, Alfred Lilienthal, that I began to have a clue about Zionism.
And it wasn't until I came across Lenni Brenner's "The Iron Wall" about the founding of the Likud movement, his "Zionism in the Age of the Dictators" about Zionist clandestine activities in Europe leading up to, during, and after WWII, incl. the extensive cooperation between Zionist orgs and the Nazis -- that I started to put it together. But it wasn't until I read Lee O'Brien's "American Jewish Organizations and Israel", plus Brenner's "Jews in America Today", that I saw the whole picture.
More stuff has come out, like Chomsky's widely heralded books. But to me, at best it reinforces/elaborates/corroborates the same picture.
If you have based your analysis on Chomsky's writings, IMHO you probably are seriously misinformed about the M-E conflict, and even more about the struggle to create a countervailing power within the US Constitutional framework.
If you haven't at least read Brenner and the one small book so carefully researched and documented by Ms O'Brien, there is no way you can grasp what's going on in the determination of US foreign & military policy today.
There is more, but I have to do my chores before it starts raining again:)
Thanks again to Dr Shaw for his article -- both parts! -- and to him and Janice Mathews and all their accomplices for creating and maintaining this excellent site!!
In Struggle,
Dan Elliott
Sacramento
I wonder if she is truthful about having two sons serving? How can this be verified? The left is beyond despicable. They hate this country and everything it stands for.
each side has activism and if you cant handle it dont speak at all
reply back
N00b!
What? Are you one of those anti-war protestors?
Anti-American? Spit on the country you live in?
And what kind of reply would you like?
What a big tough guy this one is.
I can handle things just fine and will speak up as much as I darn well please. Now go give my reply to DU.
Not any more
Oh, SUCH a shame, you don't get to reply back, back.
Wingnut wouldn't have been able to without a stream of vulgarity anyway, so no loss.
I love the smell of a zot in the morning.
Too bad that (ack!) homepage couldn't be in a red, white and blue theme.
:)
I'm replying back to suggest that next time you post something worth reading
Wish I could help, but we cannot add/change profile pages
Doggone it. Oh well.....I DO thank you anyway.
“That smell, that crisped troll smell. Smells like victory.”
I'm sure they didn't provide any return address, but I'd love to tell them, "Yeah, it's about oil. We wouldn't be there trying to rescue those medievals from their suicide-bomber religion, if it weren't for oil. It's just too bad that you whining left-wing saps still have enough influence to keep us from letting the Marines stomp that two bit bug-country into the ground where it belongs and just taking their oil."
With liberals... you have to just shove it in their face. It's the only language they understand.
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